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January 11, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Short Story: The Real Reason For The Downturn In Patience

The doctor saw the apple not so much as an enemy, more healthy competition. Besides, there was no proof that his patient numbers were down because of the supermarket’s fresh supply of bold, red apples. People weren’t seeing their doctor as often these days because of Dr. Google. That was the real enemy. (Not even […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Apple, Doctor, Dr, Patience, Patients, Short Story, Short Story: The Real Reason For The Downturn In Patience, The Real Reason For The Downturn In Patience ·

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December 16, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Oliver Sacks – His Own Life: Film

Oliver Sacks: His Own Life Director: Ric Burns Zeitgeist Films The neurologist and author Oliver Sacks died in 2015, aged 82. He had been diagnosed with cancer at the start of that yet, estimated his time left on this earth as mere “months” and was correct. He was gone by September. The publication of his […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Awakenings, Doc, Doco, Doctor, Documentary, Film, Film Review, His Own Life, Memoir, Movie, Movie Review, Neurologist, Oliver Sacks, Oliver Sacks - His Own Life: Film, Oliver Sacks: His Own Life, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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December 13, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Not A Quatrain

It started at the end of a long plane ride. We flew from San Francisco to Sydney – through the night – and went from Northern Hemisphere summer to rain, rain, rain in Australia. It was freezing and pissing down and all I had to wear was shorts (well, t-shirts and jandals too, of course…) […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Doctor, Health, Hospital, Not A Quatrain, Poem, Poem: Not A Quatrain, Polyp, Surgery ·

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February 19, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 197 Second Time Around

I know I’ve been quiet lately The last year’s health problems flared up again and kind of laid me low This time around I didn’t take myself off to the hospital I just tried to deal with the problems from home and finally go looking for a doctor my own Meanwhile I didn’t feel I […]
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April 5, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

On: William Carlos Williams, American Poetics, Modern Art’s Influence And Poetry Existing In A Person’s Lifetime

“nobody can save you but yourself” – Charles Bukowski William Carlos Williams was born in the late 19th Century (September 17, 1883) and died in the midst of rock’n’roll revolution and post-modernist art in the middle of the 20th Century (March 4, 1963). A doctor, majoring in pediatrics and obstetrics, Williams kept his twin medical […]
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August 30, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

R.I.P. Oliver Sacks

The London-born, American-based author and neurologist Oliver Sacks has died, aged 82. It was known that Sacks had cancer, a melanoma in his eye had spread to his liver. Earlier this year Sacks wrote about how it was a matter of “months” – and in what was presumably a race against the clock he earlier […]
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